Ken Salazar

I believe that I have probably been to Louisiana as much as I have been to any other State.

We're going to continue to need it.

Renewable energy is a key part of keeping America competitive, creating jobs, and winning the future for our children.

We believe that there is strong potential in many other states on renewable energy.

It's important that we work with the ranchers and farmers and municipalities and the states to get ahead of the impact that climate change is going to have on the water issues of the Southwestern part of the United States.

Water is a life blood of our communities. So how we manage and conserve water is very important.

Harnessing the power of the wind in North Dakota and being able to move that power down into consuming cities like Chicago is something that I know is of high priority to the President.

It seems it would be timely for us to do an update on the USGS study.

We are moving forward with the development of oil and gas including in the deep waters of America.

The Wild Lands Policy and the Secretarial Order that I issued, from my point of view, is something that is required by law.

Let me add a comment to that, Senator Coons because I know that when you look at the Atlantic and the fact that we control those submerged lands as one United States of America creates a great opportunity for us to build transmission that…

I look forward to working with you and with Senator Murkowski and the members of this committee and Congress to move forward in the budget that strengthens our economy and makes our country stronger.

We absolutely will. I will make sure.

My goal is to make sure that when we look back at these times 20 years from now one of the things that we will see is a robust offshore wind electrical production.

Thank you, Senator Wyden. If I may, just a quick response on Senator Murkowski.

We did not mean to imply that you also agreed with the decision to impose a moratorium on all new deep water drilling.

The President has made it very clear that our end goal here is to have a better Gulf.

the kinds of statesmen who I believe will transcend partisan politics and ideology.

there will be a review of a number of issues relating to oil and gas production, and the issue of oil spill response will be one of those key issues

I believe the legislation, Senator Bingaman, is moving in the right direction.

It is clear that the industry was totally unprepared to respond to the BP disaster once it happened.

Our mission is simple. It is to protect the Gulf and its people and the ecological resources which are so important to our country and to the Gulf Coast.

In my view, it is insufficient. Today, there are authorized some 62 inspectors to essentially provide the inspection capacity for nearly 4,000 production facilities.

This is a complicated issue, and we are looking at a number of different factors related to the moratorium.

This tragedy is a wakeup call that proves that we need to begin changing the way we generate and consume energy.